Telehealth in the Amazon: development, results and perspectives
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Known for its thick forest and some road transportation deficiencies, the Amazon region has problems with one primary issue for the public sector; the health of its population. Only 5% of the brazilian population lives in this region which occupies approximately 40% of the national territory. Health care in the Amazon includes a range of issues to be solved by public authorities, the most important one is the difficulty to diagnose and treatment several regional diseases which have their own clinical features.
This is why the Telemedicine Center opened recently in the region is an inclusive innovation for the population, having a positive influence on the development of telemedicine for the area known as the Legal Amazon. Among the most immediate benefits of the Telemedicine Center for the Amazon Region, the main ones are to improve the health care quality for the population and to support health professionals very much isolated from the rest of the country, as well as monitoring the endemic diseases of the region. This piece of work will show the important progress achieved on isolated population health care in a short period of time. It also shows the long journey made with its difficulties and the technical information from the implementation to the consolidation of the Amazon Center on Telemedicine.
This is why the Telemedicine Center opened recently in the region is an inclusive innovation for the population, having a positive influence on the development of telemedicine for the area known as the Legal Amazon. Among the most immediate benefits of the Telemedicine Center for the Amazon Region, the main ones are to improve the health care quality for the population and to support health professionals very much isolated from the rest of the country, as well as monitoring the endemic diseases of the region. This piece of work will show the important progress achieved on isolated population health care in a short period of time. It also shows the long journey made with its difficulties and the technical information from the implementation to the consolidation of the Amazon Center on Telemedicine.
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